How to Rank: 25 Step SEO Master Blueprint | SEOmoz

If you’re like most SEOs, you spend a lot of time reading. Over the past several years, I’ve spent 100s of hours studying blogs, guides, and Google patents. Not long ago, I realized that 90% of what I read each doesn’t change what I actually do – that is, the basic work of ranking a [...]

4 Optimization Experts Critique a College Break Landing Page | The Daily Egg

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  If you have heard it once you have heard it a thousand times, the value is in the list. Well then, how do you build a gargantuan list. Hint the landing page. This part is really what I would say is one of the most significant pieces of the success puzzle. Learn them good. [...]

Huge attack on WordPress sites could spawn never-before-seen super botnet

Security analysts have detected an ongoing attack that uses a huge number of computers from across the Internet to commandeer servers that run the WordPress blogging application. The unknown people behind the highly distributed attack are using more than 90,000 IP addresses to brute-force crack administrative credentials of vulnerable WordPress systems, researchers from at least [...]

Blogging – what to when you are out of ideas

Probably every blogger has gone through this at the some point – you sometimes simply don’t know what to write about! Bloggers are on tough schedules and have to come up with interesting blog posts as often as possible if they want to keep their readers interested. Here are some of my tips for when [...]

My favourite 101 Word Press Plugins for 2013

Commentary: One of the reasons I love WordPress so much is the fact that there are so many different plugins that make my life easier and my blog better! It hasn’t been easy rounding up 101 of my favourite, but here they are! 101 of the best WordPress plugins is the second part of my [...]

101 of the best Word Press Plugins for 2013

101of the best WordPress plugins is the second part of my 101 series.  The first in the series was 101 TwitterTastic tools. It made sense for me to list 101 WordPress tools next seeing as I absolutely love WordPress and couldn’t ever imagine not using it for my blog. And one of the main reasons why I love WordPress so [...]

Weekly social media roundup: Facebook, Google, Quora, Twitter, WordPress

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A lot of things happened in social media this week — yet again. 1) Facebook partnered with Save.org to better identify the warning signs of suicide attempts. The company also launched a new tool for Page admins. 2) If you use Google Drive for your slideshows, you are in for a nice surprise. 3) Q&A [...]

17 Best WordPress Plugins for Social Media, SEO, and Better Visitor Engagement in 2013

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Every year I share my own experiences using WordPress plugins to run Windmill Networking to help you make your own website more social media optimized, SEO friendly, and even help convert more of your visitors into new leads. I say “website” because WordPress is not just for blogs: As a CMS,WordPress powers one of every 6 websites on [...]

WordPress Security

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See on Scoop.it – Blogging with WordPress A full guide on how to protect and improve your website and wordpress blog and installation, inlcuding useful resources, plugins, videos, tools and more Debra Simpson‘s insight: Incredibly informative post on how to keep your WordPress site secure. It’s well worth the time it takes to read the [...]

Adding Social Media Magic to Your WordPress Site | Blogging Tips

Adding Social Media Magic to Your WordPress Site Social media is the second biggest driver of traffic to your website or blog, second only to search engines. People love sharing stuff, especially ‘share-worthy’ content and the question is, how effortless can this process become on your site. Recent research by BrightEdge Research shows that sites [...]

WordPress 3.5 comes with new Media Manager

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“The latest version of self-hosted blogging platform WordPress.org was released on Tuesday. Called “Elvin” in honour of American jazz drummer Elvin Jones (1927-2004), WordPress 3.5 offers a plethora of tweaks, including a redesigned Media Manager that allows bloggers to create galleries faster with drag-and-drop reordering, inline caption editing, and simplified controls.” WordPress 3.5 comes with [...]

Web Design Trends Of Fortune 500 Companies [Infographic]

Creating an appealing website is not something you just do in a jiffy. It’s an ongoing development that takes time and effort. Some people have perfected the art of making these kinds of websites and created WordPress themes out of them. That way, it’s easy for any company to setup their website in as little [...]